Grants awarded
You can search below for information about all grants we awarded. Our grants data is also available in csv format here.
We are committed to transparency, and believe that with better information, grant-makers can be more effective decision makers. In 2017 we started to work with 360Giving to publish information about Arcadia grants (last updated February 2026). Arcadia has waived all copyright and related or neighbouring rights to Arcadia’s grant data, to the extent possible under law, by dedicating it to the public domain with the Creative Commons CC0 waiver. This means the data is freely accessible to anyone to use and share.
To establish an eye health fund in Asia and Africa
To support existing and new eye health programmes in Asia and Africa.
$1,000,000
2018
1 year
Field book project - South America
To digitize travellers’ and naturalists’ field manuscripts on South America from 1800 to 2000 and make them freely available online.
$511,200
2015
3 years
National Anthropological Archives
To digitize a collection of ethnographic sound recordings and associated manuscripts and make it freely available online.
$1,000,000
2013
3 years
Underground Explorers Programme
To support the programme's work to map and protect soil fungal diversity.
$1,500,000
2024
3 years
Open Research Funders Group
$50,000
2025
3 years
Achieving open access through copyright reform
To support research, publication and advocacy for global copyright reform to provide greater access to academic research.
$165,000
2019
2 years
Core support
Core support for the European Review of Books.
$160,000.20
2025
3 years
Core support
Core support for the European Review of Books.
$22,000
2023
1 year
Theses and Dissertations: Preservation and Access
To preserve graduate theses and dissertations from thousands of institutions and make them freely available online.
$900,160
2025
3 years
Strategic influence on digital policy making in the EU
To set up and support a strategic advocacy organization that will increase the ability of the open movement to strategically influence digital policy-making in the European Union.
$1,177,050
2020
4 years
Centre for Economics and Financial Research
To develop a new Russian economics think tank.
$1,238,300
2004
2 years
MBA programme
To create an international executive MBA programme.
$4,336,000
2002
1 year
Living Landscape Scheme
To create large conservation areas connected by wildlife corridors to protect biodiversity, in collaboration with Kent Wildlife Trust.
$500,000
2010
5 years
Imperial College mathematics summer school
To improve state school students’ maths skills through a summer school programme at Imperial College.
$139,365
2006
1 year
Digitizing historical Swedish newspapers
To digitize Swedish newspapers that are out of copyright (1645-1906) and make them freely available online.
$3,600,000
2018
4 years
Digitizing historical Swedish newspapers II
To digitize Swedish newspapers that are out of copyright (1645-1906) and make them freely available online.
$1,800,000
2020
2 years
Rainforest seed conservation
To develop techniques for storing seeds not suitable for traditional seed preservation methods.
$600,000
2012
5 years
Digitising the National Farm Survey
To digitize the records of the National Farm Survey of England and Wales (1941-1943), and make them freely available online, together with a tool that makes each farm searchable.
$2,553,878
2023
3 years
Eternal Mongolia - Mongolia Conservation Trust Fund
To complete the match fund for a newly established Mongolia Conservation Trust Fund which will oversee the Eternal Mongolia Project Finance for Permanence initiative.
$6,000,000
2024
5 years
Modern Endangered Archives Program capacity increase
The Regents of the University of California
https://library.ucla.edu/partnerships/modern-endangered-archives-program
To support a grant programme to digitize endangered printed materials, manuscripts, photographs, audio-visual recordings and born-digital materials from the 20th and 21st centuries, and make the digitized materials freely available online.
$2,000,000
2026
4 years